Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judging by its subtitle, "Memoirs of My Father," and its ominous preface, "Opening the Door"--in which the author "thanks God" for his father's death--Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception seems to belong to this nightmares-in-the-nursery trend. But the initial likenesses are misleading; unlike his fellow excavators of the past, Wolff's maturity enables him to emerge--after a respectable period of thrashing--from the muck. He unflinchingly lays out the shoddiest episodes of a shameful upbringing, yet from this scrutiny he extracts a peace with that segment of his life over which...
...doubt go running to the nearest courthouse. While they run, however, they ought to do some very hard thinking--about their failures to plan ahead and their continuing failures to establish good community relations. If MATEP is a very large mistake, it is only sumbolic of a continuing trend...
...FLICKERING TELEVISION IMAGE of a number of prominent black Americans linking hands with Palestinian leaders and singing "We shall overcome" signified an important new trend in Mid-East politics. It reflected not only the recent tension between American blacks and jews, triggered by Andrew Young's forced resignation as ambassador to the United Nations, but also the belief shared by a growing number of Americans that the United States should end its policy of refusing to negotiate with the Palestinian Liberation Organization...
Gray said he cannot foresee any change in the trend of MIT students moving away from the humanities and social sciences as majors. But he added that "technical education and engineering education is more relevant today than it was ten years...
...Salant labors to improve that troubled network's Chancellor-Brinkley Nightly News. This has put him in a two-way fight with ABC's Arledge: several times this summer ABC News topped NBC in the ratings, a trend that will take time to reverse. Salant sounds like a football coach after a bad loss: "NBC has got to get its pride back. I can't stand this 'you win some, you lose some' attitude." Salant has hired Bill Small, a top CBS executive, to shake up NBC News. "They say morale's bad, wondering...